ACES HIGH AGAINST PANTHERS

BELLE Vue demolished Peterborough 63-27 to move back to within two points of Premiership leaders Ipswich.

The Aces started the meeting with three 5-1s and a 4-2, and ended it with four successive maximums to top the 60-point mark once again.

Tom Brennan (13+1), Max Fricke (11+1), Matej Zagar (10+4) and Charles Wright (10+1) were all in double figures for the rampant hosts, whilst Chris Harris reached 10+1 for the depleted Panthers.

Fricke said: “It’s great to see all the boys in such good form at the moment, and especially rewarding to see the likes of Tom and Norick (Blodorn) really stepping things up.

“Results like this are rare enough and don’t come around very often so we will make the most of this while we can because, come the play-offs, things will only get tougher.

“It is a shame for Peterborough, we know how it feels to struggle without riders but at the same time we have to captalise on their misfortune to pursue the result we wanted.”

Panthers boss Rob Lyon said: “It’s frustrating because we don’t have a full side, we haven’t had a full side for quite a while now, and we’re battling to try and get more points on the board with a full team, let alone half a team.

“The boys put the effort in, you can’t fault them for that, but it was a bit one-sided and Belle Vue are pretty dialled-in here now. It was a difficult night.”

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